Voltaire Quotes

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.